Hayden’s Ferry Days Special Edition

WE SALUTE: OUR SPONSORS: They Make Hayden’s Ferry Days Happen Tempe Historical Society and Tempe History WE SALUTE OUR 2019 SPONSORS Founder Sponsorship: Museum salute those who have signed on as JOSEPH W. BIRCHETT sponsors for the fourth annual running of Emerald Sponsorship: Hayden’s Ferry Days celebrating Tempe’s 1871 CITY OF TEMPE founding as Hayden’s Ferry. Without the financial Settler Sponsorship: help of our sponsors, you would not be able to SALLY S. CLARK enjoy the many facets of the celebration - from Diamond Sponsorship: getting to know more about our city’s history via JERRY W. BROCK FOUNDATION, Tempe Homesteader Sponsorship: ROBERT & MARGARET MORONEY events such as Walk through History tours and Silver Sponsorship: events at historic houses to the majorly festive HALLMAN and AFFILIATES, PC, Tempe Rancher Sponsorship: and fun Hayden’s Ferry Days Festival. Hugh Hallman LOANN & EDWIN BELL, The Society can always use the help of - and very much appreciate - new sponsors, especially CHARLOTTE VARELA Copper Sponsorships: as we look ahead to the coming-up Hayden’s LAKESHORE MUSIC INC., Tempe Ferry Days celebration of Tempe’s Sesqui- WE AGAIN THANK OUR 2018 SPONSORS: Woody Wilson, President centennial. That’s Tempe’s 150th birthday and it’s • Jerry W. Brock Foundation

just a couple more years down the road in 2021. • Gammage & Burnham Law Firm The Society, Museum and the City, want to make GAMMAGE & BURNHAM LAW FIRM that celebration one to especially remember. Phoenix • Wexford Developments If you happen to see - or are a customer of - Sterling Sponsorships: • Sender Associates Law Firm any of our sponsors and you enjoy Hayden’s FRIENDS OF TEMPE PUBLIC LIBRARY • Arizona State University-Office of Ferry Days festivities, please let them know you Government & Community appreciate their help making those events TEMPE TOURISM • Hallman & Affiliates, PC possible. (And plan on taking in those activities in DICK AND JANE NEUHEISEL, LIGOURI • Southwest Gas February and March - see pages 2-4) Tempe Sister Cities dministrator of Public Affairs Sponsorships range from $500 up to $10,000. • Phoenix Analysis & Design Southwest G Technologies (PADT) • Friends of Tempe Public Library • Tempe Firefighters Union - Local 393 • Lakeshore Music • Tempe Tourism • Opus Development Company • Swire Coca-Cola USA • Sender Associates Law Firm

TICKETS - EVENT BRITE online is the main place to buy tickets this year for Ferry Days events requiring them but tickets will also be available at Tempe History Museum’s front desk and some at Hackett House. Except for the Founders Day dinner, tickets are $25. INSIDE. . . PAGE 2 - 2019 Ferry Days Events - Founders Day Dinner BACK AGAIN to help Tempeans celebrate their community’s history during PAGE 3 - Festival Happenings Hayden’s Ferry Days, AZ Cattle Co.’s ranching family will be cooking up a frontier - Adobe Houses Tour style meal for the opening event - a Founders Day dinner at historic Hackett House PAGE 4 - 2018 Ferry Days photos on February 22. Judging from above photo taken at last year’s event, nobody went BIGGER AND BETTER:

As the countdown to Tempe’s 250th birthday narrows, Tempe Historical Days Festival on the grounds in front of Tempe History Museum mostly Society’s goal of making each year’s Hayden’s Ferry Days celebration but there will be activities inside the museum for children. The Festival is bigger and better on the way to a real blast celebrating that 2021 free and provides a wide variety of activities for all ages from Sesquicentennial is showing up this year. demonstrations of various crafts to music by various musical groups. It For newcomers who may not know, Hayden’s Ferry was the name briefly will entertain and educate visitors from 1 to 5 p.m. (see page 3) given back in 1871 to what became the little town of Tempe. It was named Carrying Hayden’s Ferry Days on into March will be “Landmark Tours for founder Charles Trumbull Hayden’s innovative ferry across the Salt of Historic Houses” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 2. It’s neither a bus River which gave folks (horses and wagons!) on this side of the river a way nor a walking tour, you’ll have to get to the houses under your own to get to the other side and on their way to Phoenix when the river ran full.. steam for a self-guided tour. Open for you to see will be the famous Ferry Days chairman Richard Bauer, past Tempe Historical Society Petersen House Museum, Hackett House, Elias-Rodriguez House and president, says festivities planned in this new year of 2019 for the fourth the luxurious Eisendrath House. annual celebration of the founding of Hayden’s Ferry are scheduled from There will be another occasion to visit a couple of those historic February 22 when the traditional Founders Dinner will kick it off (see story houses on March 3 when both the hilltop Eisendrath House and Petersen below) through March 16 when the 15th Annual Catch-A-Wave Car Show House Museum will be sites for “Historic House Teas.” The garden staged by Tempe Nuevo Kiwanis Club at Kiwanis Park becomes a new teas and tours will start at 2 p.m. Such afternoon teas were once a very part of the Hayden’s Ferry Days celebration. popular social event in many communities across the U.S.A. - even in the In between there will be February 23 Walks Through History Tours “old wild West.” Hayden’s Ferry founder Charles Trumbull Hayden’s wife, including a 9-11 a.m. “Outside and Inside Tour” of historic buildings on Sallie Davis Hayden, hosted teas at the Hayden home - and the Hayden Mill Avenue - among them Tempe Hardware Store. Its upstairs “attic” over daughters, Sally and Mary, in later years opened and ran a tea house in the years served many purposes including a ballroom, a meeting place for the old Hayden house - La Casa Vieja. Tempe organizations (among them the Odd Fellows for whom the ballroom Last of the 2019 Hayden’s Ferry Days events will be a newcomer to the was named), Tempe City Council meetings, an early elementary school celebration though it is marking its 15th year as a Tempe event. That’s class, an art gallery and a little theater group. the Kiwanis Club of Tempe Nuevo’s Catch-A-Wave Car Show and it Among the hardware store’s last owners was John J. Curry, a prominent will be a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. happening at Tempe’s Kiwanis Park on March and well liked Tempe citizen. He also served as Maricopa County’s Works 16. You’ll see lots of old cars there from many decades. (If you have an Project Administration administrator during the Great Depression old vehicle you would like to show off you can find information and entry overseeing construction of the Moeur Activity building at Arizona State forms on the Kiwanis Club of Tempe Nuevo web site. ) University among other projects. With the exception of the Founders Dinner most of this year’s Hayden’s Also on February 23, a second of the “Walk Through History Tours” will Ferry’s Days pay-for events are $25. See the Hayden’s Ferry Days 2019 be a 1-4 p.m. event. There won’t really be much walking though. The online site for tickets information. “We’ll Always Have Adobe“ tour will bus participants to six historic In addition to the Historical Society’s “forever partner” - the adobe homes in Tempe. Leading that tour will be a former Tempe mayor, Tempe History Museum - partners in the Hayden’s Ferry Day Hugh Hallman, and he and some friends will talk about the architecture of celebrations this year include the City of Tempe Arts & Culture, the houses and the people who live or have lived in them. (see story page Tempe Sister Cities, Friends of Tempe Library,Tempe Historic 3). Always a big - and fun -part of Hayden’s Ferry Days is the free Ferry Preservation Foundation and the Rio Salado Foundation. A ‘Pair To Draw To’ Should Draw Lots of Pairs To HFD Founders Dinner Claimed by the Halls of Fame of both Arizona Music and Entertainment and Arizona Tourism, Dolan and his music were read into the Congressional Record by the late Senator John McCain. Ellis now goes “on the road” with his own one-man show entertaining throughout Arizona and spends time at the Arizona Folklore Preserve he founded in Ramsey Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains as a place for celebrating and preserving songs and stories of Western heritage and culture. In partnership with the University of Arizona South, the preserve was expanded in 2001 with the building of a Folklore center including a state-of-the-art theater. Marshall Trimble doesn’t need much of an introduction to Tempe folks. Known as the “Will Rogers of Arizona” and the “Dean of Arizona Historians,” the Arizona native was born on a farm between Tempe and Mesa, attended Kyrene school and Phoenix College. He retired from teaching in 2014 after having taught Arizona history in high schools You can’t pack much more history into one evening than having two of (where he virtually had to write the “history book” himself) and for 40 Arizona’s most revered “storytellers” sing and tell tales about Arizona’s years at Scottsdale Community College. He’s been a frequent speaker history, cowboys cooking your old Western-style dinner on Dutch Ovens at Tempe Historical Society and Tempe Museum events. near a covered wagon, and feasting on that meal in a building that’s been Trimble’s knowledge of Arizona and the Old West has poured into around for 130 years. That’s what you’ll get - all for just $40 a head - when more than 20 books, provided columns for magazines, tales for radio Tempe Historical Society kicks off its fourth annual Hayden’s Ferry Days shows and documentaries for television. And his work has earned the with a Founder’s Day Dinner, February 22, 6-8 p.m., at the restored 1888- ex-Marine numerous awards, among them Lifetime Achievement Awards built Hackett House (originally home of Tempe’s first bakery and the from both the National Wild West History Association and Arizona Office baker’s family, now Tempe Sister Cities quarters), 95 West Fourth Street. of Tourism and induction into the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall Those two storytellers are Dolan Ellis (left in photo above), our state’s of Fame. Official Balladeer for more than 50 years, and Marshall Trimble (at right) And if those two don’t provide enough history for Founder’s Day Dinner Arizona’s Official Historian since 1997. The two guitar-playing singers will attendees, an authentic Old West dinner will be prepared at a covered be strumming, singing and telling tales of the Old (and newer, too) West. wagon on Dutch Ovens by real cowboys and cowgirls from the AZ Cattle Folk singer Dolan Ellis was Kansas-born and raised but grew up loving Co. They are coming back for a second year to participate in Hayden’s those singing cowboys in the old Western movies. He came to Phoenix Ferry Days. (And they received raves for their Old West feast from last and Arizona for the first time in 1959 and it has been “home” ever since year’s guests.) though he was away often in the 1960s after becoming part of the New The $40 tickets for the 6-8:30 p.m. event covers entertainment, dinner Christy Minstrels when that Grammy Award winning group was formed. and one beverage. There Will Be A Lot Going On At Festive Ferry Days Festival Want to kick up your heels and dance to live music or get a clue on ‘tent’ throughout the afternoon - - - you could do that while enjoying a free how to start making your own music with a guitar - or maybe get some serving of ice cream, courtesy of the Tempe Historical Society which is hints on how to be a poet, mask maker or woodcarver, turn your backyard marking its own 50th Anniversary in this new year of 2019 and wants you into a flower garden or maybe even a date, cotton or chicken farm. to join them in celebrating it. THS and the Museum hope you will also join Or perhaps you are the do-it-yourself homemaker who would like to them in celebrating the double birthdays” at other Hayden’s Ferry Days learn more about making your own decorative touches for your home like activities dotting the 2019 calendar from February 22 through March 16 quilts or baskets or ceramic vases? But then again maybe you’re the guy who would rather just reminisce about your own cars of yesteryears while checking out vehicles like a 1951 Chevrolet, a low rider, muscle car or even a firetruck or police car? Possibly you wonder what groups like Tempe Preservation Foundation, Friends of the Library, the Veterans Association or Tempe Historical Society do and if you might get involved in one of them Whatever your interest, you’re sure to find something to enjoy, and even learn from, at the 1 to 5 p.m. Fourth Annual Hayden’s Ferry Days Festival celebrating Tempe’s “birthday” on Sunday, February 24 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the area outside Tempe History Museum. The festival is free and open to the public - kids included (there will be fun things especially for them to do inside the Tempe History Museum). Generally the festival attracts food vendors with for-sale food items - but you also might get to sample wares from Isabella’s tortilla making or Fire & Foraged goat cheese making demonstrations. But maybe you might just want to sit down, relax, watch the crowd and HALLOWEEN doesn’t come in February - but costumed Las listen to the assorted music makers who will be performing “under the Chollas Peligrosas all-female band will take Tempe’s Hayden’s Ferry Days February 24 Festival, as a substitute. Peligrosas means “dangerous women” so in addition to performing traditional Mexican music, expect a little “getting in your face” about social

YOUTH GROUPS are always a big part of the entertainment at the Historical Society’s annual Hayden’s Ferry Days festival and this DOUBLING UP to provide a double treat for HFD Festival goers will year will be no exception. Among the younger performers will be the be a pair of Arizona Blues Hall of Fame guitarists - Chuck Hall (left) Mariachi group above and - (guaranteed to create a BIG sound) - a and Hans Olson (who strums a guitar and mouths a harmonica all at large group of young steel drummers. the same time). It’s Just Mud, But It Built A Lot Of Old West Houses - Many In Tempe; Take A Hayden’s Ferry Days Bus Tour And See Some Of Them It’s just mud - dirt mixed with water and straw - the mixing done most often in the old Southwest by the bare feet of mostly Mexican or Indian laborers, with trousers rolled up to the knees, stomping the mixture in a ditch or shallow hole until thoroughly blended. Then it was turned into molds (or actually hand-molded in very early days in places like Arizona and New Mexico] and sun-dried. It was just mud, but it was THE building material of the Old West, Hayden’s Ferry included. Today, it’s still a The West’s old adobe houses used prized home construction material for many people because it saves on energy bills. Now though some to look like this deserted dwelling homebuilding businesses have taken adobe into their wares - making the process more mechanical. There are still some hardy souls though who prefer to do their own brick-making the old fashioned way. A half dozen of those adobe houses in Tempe will be destinations for a Hayden’s Ferry Days “We’ll Always Have Adobe - Tempe Adobe Bus Tour” as part of the Historical Society’s “Walk Through History” tours on February 23. Former Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman and some friends will lead the 1-4 p.m. bus tour - and talk about the houses and the people who lived in them). Included in the tour: the Hayden House (known also as La Casa Vieja) and the Gonzales-Martinez, Farmer- Goodwin, Elias-Rodriguez, Eisendrath and the Sandra Day O’Connor houses. If you’ve lived in Tempe long, some - if not all - of those names will be familiar. The Hayden House welcomed guests from its beginning as the home of Tempe’s founder Charles Trumbull Hayden and wife Sallie David. The house was known to Tempeans These days those adobe houses for many, many years as La Casa Vieja - the best place in town to dine and to throw big banquets. look a lot more like this one - Catch the Adobe Houses tour bus at the Arizona Heritage Center, 1300 North College Avenue (be there Tempe’s historic Farmer- before 1 p.m. because that’s when the bus pulls out). Goodwin House. Kids to Tea-Partiers, Car Lovers to Music Lovers - Ferry Days Always Has Something For Everyone

JUST A SAMPLING of what can show up as part of Hayden’s Ferry Days -Tempe Historical Society Vice-President and longtime photographer LARRY MISHLER snapped these at some of last year’s HFD activities. Old cars, children enjoying dancing to music, and a performance by young violinists were among the many 2018 HF Festival’s attractions; the ladies were getting ready for a luncheon at historic Eisendrath House; and (below) Tempe Museum curator of history Jared Smith was leading visitors on a Petersen House tour. And you’ve gotta have at least one Old West tough guy at a Hayden’s Ferry Days Festival!